It's official - the Winter Olympics have begun, with Great Britain targeting a record medals haul at PyeongChang 2018.

The opening ceremony took place on Friday 9 February, but the early stages of ski jumping and curling started the day before.

Team GB want five podium finishes from their athletes to surpass the best-ever return of four from 1924 and 2014.

The Games, designed to bring the world together through sport, has already enjoyed a diplomatic victory with unprecedented talks between host nation South Korea and reclusive neighbours North Korea.

North Korea has also agreed to send a team to the games, while there is also a proposal for a joint women's ice hockey team to be fielded by the two nations - that would be a first in any Olympic sport.

There will be 102 events across 15 sports with four new disciplines introduced.

Sunday February 25

How can you watch it?

Eurosport is shaking things up with their coverage of the Games, the first major event since the Discovery-owned network won the rights to show Olympics across Europe from 2018 (and the UK from 2022).

Starting at midnight on Wednesday, February 7, Eurosport will be showing every minute of every event to be broadcast across their multi-platform schedule with scores of gold medals represented in their commentary team.

Across Eurosport 1 and 2 they will show 794 hours of action, 293.5 hours of it live from around midnight to 2pm-3pm each day, followed by highlights until the evening sessions in the morning.

Recently retired US alpine skiing legend Bode Miller will present insights from new innovation The Cube.

The three Eurosport pop-up channels on Sky, Virgin and BT TV will operate 24/7, showing a mixture of live coverage and highlights, while there will be up to 16 bonus channels on the Eurosport Player.

BBC is the free-to-air broadcaster and will be showing events across their TV, radio and online platforms.

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US Marines ski down slopes of Pyeongchang ahead of the Games (Image: REUTERS)

What are the events and how are the medals split up?

There are 102 events across 15 sports to be contested in South Korea, including the addition of four medal events - big air snowboarding, mass start speed skating, mixed doubles curling and mixed team alpine skiing.